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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2021
Maritime Advanced Video Technology, Kiel, DE;
Michael Wessel, Kiel, DE;
Hinrich Kahl, Kiel, DE;
Markus Werner, Kiel, DE;
Oliver Welzel, Kiel, DE;
Karsten Wurm, Kiel, DE;
MARITIME ADVANCED VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, Kiel, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a system for monitoring the operation of a ship comprising a plurality of sensors, which are designed to monitor equipment of the ship and/or people and objects on board the ship, a central computer connected to the sensors in a communicating manner, and a plurality of reporting units connected to the central computer in a communicating manner, wherein the reporting units are grouped in a plurality of reporting groups, corresponding to organisational units for operationally and nautically controlling the ship, and the central computer is designed for informing a reporting unit associated with a predetermined reporting group according to an event detected by at least one sensor, characterised in that at least one of the sensors is a video camera, a LIDAR and/or a radar system, wherein at least one of the sensors or the central computer is designed for face, gesture and/or facial expression recognition and the detected event is a face, gesture and/or a facial expression.